Salamander In My Blueberry Patch

I was up the small rising hill at the back of the house pulling Goldenrod (lovely flower – invasive weed) from our little blueberry patch in the misty wet of the overcast when this little fellow caught my eye as he did his lolly-gagger kind of walk – front legs working somewhat as one is expecting to see but the rear legs doing a kind of a rolling up and forward side to side motion as the hips and lower tail wiggled about like a tad-pole.  Scooping him (her?) up in my hand I headed back to the house and let him free on the kitchen table while I snapped a few quick photos.  The loonie was handy to give a bit of scale as to the size of this little amphibian.  In a few short minutes back to the hill we went, where I released him very near to where the alien had scooped him up.  Off he went on his business of the day.